ethos
ethos 英 [ˈi:θɒs] 美 [ˈiθɑs]
n. 民族精神；气质；社会思潮
- Ethos is the spirit of a time or society. It’s the set of beliefs a community lives by. Free spirits might live by the ethos of "anything goes." Zombies might live by the ethos “eat more brains.”
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- n. 民族精神；气质；社会思潮
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1. Quantity, not quality, is the ethos of bienniales and art fairs.
数量，而非质量，是双年展和艺术博览会的精神气质。
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2. I think the American ethos—mixing tolerance and reverence—may have something special to contribute to this issue.
我认为，美国的气质——宽容与敬畏交融——可能对此问题有一些特别的贡献。
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3. In this archaic ethos, the notion that our personal identity or salvation was based on our jobs was as foreign as were the French coins only then beginning to trickle into the regional economy.
在这种古老的民族精神里面，关于我们的个人身份或者赎罪是基于我们的工作的概念，就像是法国硬币像涓涓细流般的融入区域经济一样令人觉得异样。
- ethos (n.) "the 'genius' of a people, characteristic spirit of a time and place," 1851 (Palgrave) from Greek ethos "habitual character and disposition; moral character; habit, custom; an accustomed place," in plural, "manners," from suffixed form of PIE root *s(w)e- third person pronoun and reflexive (see idiom). An important concept in Aristotle (as in "Rhetoric" II xii-xiv).
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